St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17
Officers Elected by the Polish
Alliance and Other Bust
ness Transacted.
District Court Judges Hearing
the Old Case on the
Levee's Ownership.
West st. Paul at Last Has a
Line of Street Cars
All Its Own.
is KILL GUILTY L?


The Coroner's Jury Believe So,
and All Evidence Confirms the
Verdict.
The coroner's jury made quick work
of the inquest over the body of Jacob
KOhn, who was mySteriously murdered
Tuesday night in the unoccupied house
on the Hazard farm at Como. The in
quest was called at 10 o'clock at Gross
undertaking rooms on West Third
street yesterday morning. and the jury
was sworn over the coffin which held
the remains of kohn prepared for bur
ial. Bernard kohn, brother of the dead
man. testified that his brother had tin
trunk in which he kept all his clothing,
and that this trunk had been missing
since the day after the murder. He also
testified that his brother had a new
suit of clothes, and identified the watch.
the boots, the cuff buttons and the
bunch of keys found in Kills posses
sion as having belonged to Jacob kohn.
Paul Weber.whO was first at the Hazard
place Wednesday morning, and diScoy-
cred Kohn in dying condition. testified
to those facts. Joshua Robinson,
farmer living forty rods east of the Haz-
Zard place, was taken to the Jail and
identified Kill positively as the stranger
MHoli llt HIet anu ldlheu Will dit Tile
Hazard place Monday evening about
o'clock. He also identified a black
handled pocket knife, taken from
Kill on the morning of his arrest,
as the property of Kohn. Charles
ii. Hazard, a son of Kohn's
employer, testified that he had known
KOhn two years, and Swore positively
that the watch and black-handled knife
found upon Kill had been the property
of Kohn. Henry BOckstruek, of the
firm of Bockstruck Il Lee, jewelers. at
No. II East Seventh street, was shown
the remains, and swore that
HE HAD SEEN KOHN
in his store several times with the
watch. He identified the watch posi-
lively by the numbers on the case and
on the movement, a record of which was
on the books of the firm. He was not
sure that Kohn was the man who pur-
chased the watch, because it had been
sold by his partner, but he was positive
that kohn had called at the store several
times to have the watch regulated.
George Hazard, another son of Kohn's
employer, also identified the boots and
the watch as belonging to Kohn. and
SWOre that he himself had found the
blackhandled knife and given it to Kohn
This witness also identified Kill as the
man who had helped him in herding
the cattle on the Hazard farm Monday
afternoon and who was stopping with
k0hn at the house. George III. Hazard,
for whom Kohn had worked two years,
testified that Kohn had small tin trunk
and suit of clothes and boots nearly
new that were gone from the room after
the murder. and that the only effects of
the murdered man which could be
found on the premises We're an old
vest, coat which he wore while
at work and a pair of old boots.
He also gave evidence that Kohn was a
man of good character, honest, and
trustworthy. and although he drank
beer occasionally. he did not indulge
his appetite to excess. Officer William
to having arrested Kill at Nolan's farm,
near Bass lake, Wednesday afternoon.
He found Kohn'S watch in Kills vest
pocket andidentified it by the number
OF the case and movement furnished by
the jewelers.. The officer swore that
the boots, keys, cuff buttons and knife
which were in evidence had been taken
from Kill upon his arrest, and that Kill
told several different stories when oues-
toned as to his whereabouts and &C
tons previous to and after the
present at the post norton,
Examination told the jury that the
wounds in Kohn's head had necessarily
caused his death, and that the instru-
ment used by his assassin must have
been hammer, Ratchet or ak, or some
other heavy, blunt Instrument. James
. Richter farmer in the town of Rose,
gave ont some
DECIDEDLY NEW EVIDENCE,
which is regarded as most important.
Mr.. Richter testified:
IN, last Wa1paSdov Of S7o-I;cI,.
left my home in Rose township to drive to
the city, accompanied by my daughter Lou
Use. We drove into the city along Como ave-
nue.. Near the Como avenue, bridge we
passed man wheeling wheelbarrow on
which was tin trunk. My daughter re-
marked at the time that she had seen the
man before, and that he had called at our
house about week ago and asked for some
thing to eat. The man had on straw hat
with black band, and some kind of light
colored coat. -
This description, so far as it goes,
TALES exactly with that of Kill when he
was arrested. The tin trunk On the
Wheelbarrow was thought to be the
trunk which was missing from Kohn's
room. The chain OF evidence indicating
Kills guilt is growing stronger every
day. The wheelbarrow is believed to
have been taken from the Workhouse at
Como, and by following the clue sup
piled by Mr.. Richter, the police expect
TO md the trunk, and possibly the suit
of clothes which are missing. A pair
of old shoes found in the room where
the murder was committed was brought
to the jail yesterday and found
to fit the feet of the prisoner.
All the evidence IS to the effect that
Kohn had befriended Kill in every way,
Offering him the hospitality of his bed,
paying for his meals, and endeaYoring
to get him work among the neighbour II
farmers.
The coroner's jury were not two min1
utes in finding the following verdict
THAT Jacob Kohn came to his death on
Wednesday, Sept. IA. as the result of
injuries inflicted in his head by some
unknown blunt instrument. by the Jury
believed to have been in the hands of
Nicholas KILL" The pritoner will be
arraigned before Judge Cory in the
police court to-day, and will probably
waive examination and go back to jail
to await the grand jury. Neither of his
relatives, nor any friend, has called
upon him since his arrest.
THE POLISH ALLIANCE.
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